Lead Business Change Manager

What You’ll Do:

As the Lead Business Change Manager you will Manage and coordinate a portfolio of business change programmes, ensuring effective benefits realisation, governance, and delivery excellence. The role has a strong programme control focus, encompassing change control, project planning, and the creation of high-quality, data-driven management reporting. You will lead the continuous improvement of governance and reporting frameworks, provide expert advice to enhance project and programme management capability, and act as PMO across a portfolio of priority workstreams. Working collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels, you will drive accountability, support successful delivery against plans, and help embed a culture of continuous improvement and inclusive ways of working.

What You’ll Bring:

You will bring strong business change, governance, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate complex programmes and support the successful delivery of strategic outcomes. You will be committed to ensuring that change initiatives deliver measurable benefits through effective planning, performance tracking, and programme assurance. A key strength will be your ability to build trusted relationships and work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels. You will develop inclusive engagement and communication strategies that encourage collaboration, build confidence in change, and support colleagues throughout the transformation journey. You will take a proactive approach to managing risks, resolving challenges, and maintaining accountability to keep delivery on track. Results-focused and commercially aware, you will thrive in a fast-paced environment, using strong governance, data-driven insights, and a commitment to continuous improvement to help embed sustainable change and realise long-term business benefits., * Identify, plan and track the business benefits and outcomes required of the business change programme.

• Provide programme assurance and overview of the benefits realisation plan.

• Confirm that projects will contribute to the realisation of benefits, making sure no overlap exists between individually owned profiles.

• Establish and maintain business ownership of benefits profiles and the benefits realisation plan.

• Assess and manage risks to benefits realisation and stakeholder engagement and address potential issues and concerns.

• Create and implement stakeholder management strategies and persuade internal and external stakeholders of the agenda for change; setting realistic expectations on both the benefits and drawbacks of specific changes.

• Create and implement communications strategies and plans.

• Prepare affected business area for transition to business as usual, developing strategies to protect the investment and transition by engaging relevant stakeholders.

Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our safety vision ., * Senior project manager with an excellent track record of delivering large scale business change within a complex blue-chip business or government function

• Extensive experience in defining, tracking and delivering business benefit in change management initiatives
• Results orientation, with a passion for delivery
• Effective interpersonal skills and an ability to use influence to gain buy in to enable change to happen
• Commercial awareness
• An ability to work well under pressure in a rapidly evolving environment

Desirable

• Experience of working across business functions to deliver multi-million business benefits
• Experience of managing people in a change resistant and complex business environment
• Budget management

• 28-day annual leave with the option to buy and sell days
• Choice of pension schemes
• 75% discount of leisure travel for you and your family
• 5 days paid volunteer or carers leave
• Private Healthcare
• Up to 75% subsidised Rail and Underground travel
• Gym Pass -access to gyms across UK My Benefits platform- giving national and local retail discount *

This vacancy is Band 2B, salary starting £71,163 rising to £86,801 (DOE).

Our aim is to ensure your candidate experience is as positive as possible. If you require reasonable adjustments at any point, simply let us know-we’ll do our best to assist you.

At Network Rail, we’re dedicated to keeping passengers and freight moving safely and efficiently across the country. When you join us, you’re not just part of a team- you’re part of something that matters to millions. We believe that our people are at the heart of what we do, and every role plays a vital part in building a better, more connected railway.